GALLIA ROMANA

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Ville	Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (Glanum) (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13)
Subject(s)	Triumphal arch

Author(s)	Nostredame, Michel de, called Nostradamus
	Physician (1503-1566)
Resource type	Printed book
Date	1555
Inscription
References	Nostredame 1555, IV, 27
Bibliography	DLF XVI^e siècle, pp. 888-889 ; Rolland 1977 ; Brind’Amour 1996, pp. 499-504 ; Gateau 1999, pp. 289-295 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 47, 91-93
Remarks	Paraphrased, the quatrain reads as follows: 'At Salon, Saint-Paul de Mausole and Tarascon, at the place where the Arch of Sextus is found and there where the monument in the shape of a pyramid still stands , they will come to deliver the Prince of Denmark: shameful ransom at the Temple of Artemide ' (Brind’Amour 1996, p. 503). The inscription, the beginning of which is quoted by Nostradamus, is not found on the arch, but on the nearby mausoleum. In all probability, this was not an mistake, nor was there any intention to attribute the two edifices to Sextus, and still less to identify the central part of the mausoleum as a triumphal arch, as P. Brind’Amour suggests (p. 500, n. 36). Probably, it was simply a case of poetic license

Transcription « Salon, Mansol, Tarascon, de SEX. L’arc, Où est debout encor la piramide, Viendront livrer le prince Dannemarc : Rachat honni au temple d’Artemide. »